TRADE VALUES OF FERTILIZING INGRE- 

 DIENTS IN RAW MATERIALS AND 

 CHEMICALS, 1903. 





Nitrogen in ammonia salts . 

 nitrates . 



dry and fine ground fish, meat, and 

 blood, and in high grade mixed 

 fertilizers .... 

 tine ground bone and tankage 

 medium ground bone and tankage 

 Phosphoric acid soluble in water 



" ammonia citrate (re 



verted) 

 in fine ground bone, fish, and 



tankage 

 in coarse bone and tankage 

 in cotton-seed meal, castor-pom 



ace, and wood ashes . 

 insoluble in mixed fertilizers 

 Potash as sulphate free from chlorides and in 



wood ashes ..... 

 Potash as muriate ..... 



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Cents per pound. 



17-5 

 15- 



17.O 

 16.5 

 I2.0 



45 



4.0 



4- 

 3- 



4- 



2. 



5- 

 4.2c 



The above values are based on the wholesale market price 

 for the materials, when sold in large lots at the principal trade 

 centers in New England. The valuation of a ton of any 

 mixed fertilizer based on the above figures will usually fall 

 ten dollars below the retail price at the local agency. This 

 variation includes such fixed charges as cost of mixing, bags, 

 cartage, and freight, salaries and commissions of agents, and 

 interest. 



Nitrogen in the best animal fertilizers and in nitrates cost 

 more in 1903 than in the previous year, while phosphoric acid 

 was cheaper. 



